Tiny Machinery vs purple (game)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Machinery
Immerse yourself in a virtual dimension to solve intricate puzzles and escape a mysterious experiment. Use your intellect to manipulate complex machinery and unlock the secrets of your confinement. Experience a unique escape room adventure with creative 3D graphics and atmospheric audio.
- Escape room-style puzzles
- Creative 3D graphics
- Intricate mechanisms
- Atmospheric audio
- Hint system
- Unlockable story notes
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You've been kidnapped by unknown scientists and your brain has been plugged into a sophisticated machine to run an experiment: travel into a virtual dimension to unlock weird machinery. Use your imagination and IQ to crack puzzles and complete all intricate levels to save your life. Can you make it? A CLEVER PUZZLE GAME Embark into an escape room-style adventure full of riddles! CREATIVE 3D GRAPHICS Explore weird machines that will impress you with their unique art style INTRICATE MECHANISMS Enjoy tons of original puzzles, interact with buttons, levers, and little wheels to complete each level ATMOSPHERIC AUDIO Play the game with your headphones to get immersed in the game at best TRY FOR FREE Play the first 4 levels for free, with the option to unlock all the levels with a small In-App purchase, which will make you experience the whole story and puzzles HINTS In case you get stuck on a level, click the bulb button to get a hint that will help you solve the riddles STORY NOTES You will unlock a new story paragraph for each level you will complete. Discover how your kidnappers have threatened you and how it ends! ------------------------------------------------ XSGames is an independent solo startup from Italy. Find out more at xsgames.co Follow me @xsgames_ on both X and Instagram
purple (game)
Solve 50 unique logic puzzles by making the screen entirely purple. Each level presents a new challenge with its own distinct solution. Hints are available to guide you through the conundrums.
- 50 unique logic puzzles
- Each level has its own logic
- Hint system available
- Part of a color puzzle series
- Designed by bontegames
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Can you make the screen purple in 50 levels? Each level has its own logic. It's here, the next part of my colour puzzle series! After 'yellow', 'red', 'black, 'blue', 'green', 'pink' and 'orange' it's time to solve 50 new conundrums! Do you need help? Use the light bulb button in the top right corner of each level to get hints. There are multiple hints for each level. With the in-app purchase you will not get ads before the hints. This is the eighth game in my color puzzle series. There are already 8 color games each with 50 new levels. A Bart Bonte / bontegames puzzle game. Enjoy! @BartBonte
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: purple (game) at 91% against Tiny Machinery's 54%. purple (game) also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (221 vs 45). Tiny Machinery's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 5 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tiny Machinery sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and purple (game) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
purple (game) holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 221 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Tiny Machinery's written reviews are positive against 91% of purple (game)'s.
Tiny Machinery ships an update every 3 months, purple (game) every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Machinery | purple (game) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (45 ratings) | 4.6 (221 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.1% of reviews | 91.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 | 221 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | XSGames | Bart BONTE |
Customer experience
Tiny Machinery
purple (game)
Bugs and requests
Tiny Machinery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
purple (game)
Reported bugs
2 issues- Level 50 hint system not functioning properly
- Level 19 solution not intuitive
Requested features
4 requests- More color games (teal, magenta, neon, etc.)
- Ability to skip levels
- Individual sound/music controls
- Bonus levels or timed mode for replayability
In-app purchases
Tiny Machinery
- Full Game$3.99
- Full Game + Coffee$4.99
- Full Game + Love$7.99
purple (game)
- premium unlock$2.49
